Rumor: Microsoft to announce Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive tomorrow
It looks like all those rumors about Microsoft delivering a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 might finally come true tomorrow. A tipster told CrunchGear that Microsoft is going to announce the Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 right before Apple’s annual WWDC, in an attempt to upstage Steve Job and his keynote.
The tipster wrote the following.
I‘ve got a close friend who works at Microsoft, previously with the HD-DVD division and now in the E&D division (Xbox, zune). I’m told MS will upstage Apple with a Monday 9am PDT announcement (1 hour before WWDC) via press release that the Xbox 360 will get Blu-Ray before Christmas. Price was “under the current Elite”, but i could get any more details.
If this indeed true, it’ll put to rest the countless rumors surrounding Xbox 360’s Blu-ray drive. It seems like the natural step for them to take now that HD-DVD is nothing more than a distant memory and Blu-ray is here to stay. Both a system with a Blu-ray drive and an add-on for the Xbox 360 would no doubt boost sales for Blu.
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